Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21199, Gilbert Goodrich, Mass.

• SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Goodrich, Gilbert Sarah
No. 21199
CONTENTS

albany 6999 New York
Sarah Goodrich Mrs. Silas Goodrich widow of Silas Goodrich who was a Private in the Mass a Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of June '43 and sent to
Brad Fry Ovid N.Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
June 17, 1844
Recorded in Book
Vol.
2
Page
76
2 Certs
1 act 138
1 " 43 + 44
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V 2459 Sarah Goodrich
N.Y.
act 7. July 38.
V 2459 Sarah Goodrich
moor of Gilbert
N.Y.
act 7. July 38
Final settlements
  1588B 1 Jan 87.  $67.21    14320 1 Jan 83.  28.06    15170 1 " "  80.-    110020 1 Jan 84  18.13  
adm'd
2 yrs pre
80.40
also act 2 march 45 to N 7898
act 44 N 668
And Jay over N.Y.

State of New York
Albany County Ss
Raymond Taylor of West Troy in said County being duly sworn says that he is aged about Sixty Eight years. That he is the brother of Sarah Goodrich widow of Gilbert Goodrich late of Springport in the County of Cayuga now deceased. That said Sarahs name previous to her marriage was Sarah Taylor. That he deponent was present at the marriage of said Gilbert Goodrich with said Sarah Taylor & saw the ceremony performed. That they were married by the Revd Mr Schenk at Ballston in the now County of Saratoga on or about the second day of September 1788. And continued to live together as man and wife until the death of said Gilbert as deponent verily believes
And further deponent saith not Given this 28 day of September 1838 before me
R Taylor
I being First Judge of Albany County Oath taken
I certify my opinion that the said Raymond Taylor is a man of truth & veracity.
I being First Judge of Albany County

State of New York
Albany County Sss I Henry B. Haswell Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Jacob Leusing before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn and whose name is subscribed to the certificate of credibility was on the day of the date of the same a Judge of Albany Common Pleas That I am acquainted with his hand writing & believe that his signatures are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 5 th day of October 1838.
H. B. Haswell Clerk

By His Excellency General Washington Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States &c
Gilbert Goodrich Soldier in the fourth Regiment of Massachusetts having been reported by a Board of officers Appointed to Examine the Invalids of the Army, as unfit for any further duty within the field or Garrison - being Same is here by discharged from the Service of the United States
Given at Head quarters Newburgh This 10 th Day of July 1783
By Command G. Washington J. Trumbull Jus. Secy
True Copy of the Original { Registered in the Book of the Regt Charles Tilden Adjutant
I certify that the within name John Hens is clear & was a man of truth & honesty. Octob 8 th 1838 J. Richardson Just Judge of Oyer & terminer

I certify that the within named John Harris is dead & was a man of truth & veracity. October 8 th 1838
J. L. Richardson First Judge of Probate
new Bedford the Original Registers in the Book of the Regts Charles Stiles Scribe
By Command of J. L. Richardson
This 10 th day of July 1783 Given at Head quarters New-Burgh
Gilbert Goodrich Colonel in the Seventh Regiment of Massachusetts having been reported by a board of officers disappointed to examine the contents of the Army, he must forsook further duty within the field of Garrison - being done is here by discharged from the service of the United States
By His Excellency General Washington Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States &c

738 1000 1000
State of New York I hereby certify that James County of Cayuga p 3 Badger's signature was on the 31 st day of December 1810 a commission of office in and for said County duly qualified, and that the signature before purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed seal this 8 th day of October 1838 Geo. Warren Postmaster Dep. Post.
Copy of Gilbert Goodrich Postmaster
State of New York ss. I, Clerk of the Supreme Court, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the discharge, which he presented with a petition to Congress when he was a Representative of the State of New York. Said petition & discharge was referred to the Committee of Claims of the Hon. David Holmes was Chairman John Harris Sworn this 31 st day of December 1810 before me
Jas Badger Commissioner

State of New York Cayuga County
On this 30 th day of August 1888 personally appeared before me first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Cayuga Sarah Goodrich a resident of Springport in Seneca County who being first duly sworn according to law, clothed her oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Gilbert Goodrich who was a soldier in the company of Continental troops commanded by Capt. Joseph Fox in the ninth Regiment of the Massachusetts line. That as she is informed and believes the said Gilbert Goodrich on the first of January 1781 enlisted (and was attached to said company & regt) for the term of three years. That he continued to serve in said company until the Spring of 1783 when he was sick in the hospital and was transferred into the Seventh Regiment of Massachusetts troops & discharged on the 10 th day of June 1783 as appears by a copy dis- =charge now in her possession.
She further says that she is unable to state the names of his officers with more particularity or to specify more particularly his services.
She further says that she was married to the said Gilbert Goodrich on the second day of September 1788. That her husband the said Gilbert died on the twenty first day of April 1832 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 in at the time above stated.

Sworn & subscribed the day of & year above written
J. L. Richardson Clerk first Judge of Cayuga
I certify that said Sarah Goodrich is unable to appear in open court by reason of old age & bodily infirmity
J. L. Richardson first Judge of Cayuga
State of New York Cayuga County ss Amos Gould of Auburn in said county being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Gilbert Good- rich above named in his life time. That said Gilbert has been dead for some years but deponent does not remember the time of his death so as to be particular to a day or a month but has no doubt the same was as above stated. He further says that James Badger before whom the affidavits of said Gilbert Goodrich & John Harris were made has been dead for many years as deponent has understood. Deponent never had any personal acquaintance with said Badger but has always under- stood that he was a man of some note as a public man some years ago in Cayuga County and that he died some years ago
Deponent further says that said John Harris is also dead as he is informed & believes. That he & the said Gilbert Goodrich were in their life time highly
Rich: Goodrich

respectable citizens of said county & men of truth & veracity as deponent always understood & verily believes
And further deponent saith not Sworn this Eighth day of October 1838 before me
J. L. Richardson first Judge of Pleas
I certify my opinion that said Amos Gould is a man of truth & veracity
October 8 th 1838.
J. L. Richardson first Judge of Pleas
New York State
Cayuga County ss I hereby certify that Joseph L. Richardson Esqr. was on the 8 th day of October 1838 the first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for Cayuga County duly qualified and that the signature above pur- porting to be his is genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this 8 th day of October 1838
Geo Warren Custer Dep. Clerk

Ballston Centre N.Y. April 30
Free David Boyd P.M.
Arad Cloy Ovid Conea Co

State of New York County of Saratoga } S.S. Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Rev. George H. Thatcher of said County, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he holds the Church Records of the manua- -gists for the last fifty or sixty years of the First Presbyterian Church of Ballston, and that he finds recorded therein a marriage in these words - "Married Gilbert Goodridge to Sarah Taylor Sept 4 th  under fourth seventeen hundred and eighty eight." That the said Record shows antiquity and was no doubt made at the time of the date therein represented } George H. Thatcher Sworn and subscribed before } me this 25 th day of April 1845 William W. Satterlee Justice of the Peace
I, the undersigned, above named deposes and says that I hold the office of Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Ballston above named and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Church with the exception that the date is in the original expressed in fair legible figures as follows "Sept. 4 th 1788" Sworn and subscribed before } George H. Thatcher me this 25 th day of April 1845 } William W. Satterlee Justice of the Peace

The said Justice I certify that the above named Rev. George H. Fletcher is to me known to be the Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Ballston in Saratoga County as stated by him in the foregoing Certificate; I also certify that I have examined the old Record referred to above and I pronounce the same to be an old Record of Marriages, that it shows antiquity and that I have no doubt of its genuineness and I have full confidence in the truth of the Record as having been made at the time of the date it bears as set forth in the date of the marriage referred to above - William H. Sattler Justice of the Peace
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. Saratoga County Clerk's Office. }
I, HORACE GOODRICH, Clerk of the County of Saratoga, Do Certify, That William H Sattler before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
WITNESS my hand and seal of Office, the 29. day of April 1845
David Maxwell Dep Clerk of Sar. Co

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
am
File No. 21199
Sarah Goodrich
wid of
Gilbert Goodrich
Rev. War
Act Mch. 3 rd 1842
Index: Vol. 1842 , Page 282
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V N. York - 2459 -
Sarah Goodrich
let. to Hon. A. J. Parker 15. Feb. } 1839
to H. A. Garland 1. April 1839
to A. Gould, 8. Nov. 1839
" Dead Fly Jan'y 13. 45
" same May 1845
Acct. July 1838

9410
New York
Sarah Goodrich widow of Gilbert Goodrich who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 21. April '32 of Cayuga in the State of NY who was a Pri in the Com commanded by Captain Ford of the commanded by Col Brown in the Mass & line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of June '45 and sent to Abad Joy Ovid N.Y. Total amount, $1.4.
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by C. Swann, Clerk. Book Vol. Page
2 159

Dec. 4. 1844.
Add case of Sarah Goodrich,
John D. G. Southwick
Com of Prison Washing-Tn N. G.

Ovid Nov 29 th 1844
Hon J. L. Edwards Com d of Pensions
Dear Sir
I beg leave to enclose certificate of the Service of Gilbert Goodrich — I am the agent for Sarah Goodrich who made the appl- -lication for a Search — The history that I have of this case is, that the widow made application for a pension under the law of 1838. That the marriage was proved &c — I know little of her history and nothing of her husband's Service, I therefore enclose in good faith the certificate, for you to be the judge, whether it covers Service done by her husband, or another person of that name, I ask justice to the widow, & nothing more —
I am respectfully Your Ob d Servt Brad Joy

2459 Oct 15 NY 7 July 1838, Jun
Rev J. J. Schenck Dean of Prebends Washington D. C.

Salem Oct 9 1838
Sir
Enclosed is the papers in support of the claim of Sarah Goodrich to a pension under the act of 1838
Please give them an examination & communicate the result to me
Yours Very Respy
J. Goodrich
Hon J. S. Edwards

April 28/98
Rev. Luther Goodrich
W. L. Edwards Com. of Panion Washington D. C.
FREE

Quid April 25th 45
Dear Sir
I enclose a letter from Hon. B. B. French, Clerk of the R, U.S. - I hope it will will remove the objection in the Sarah Godrich case, but if not, please inform me what next is, or what more is required - I only ask justice to the widow & I submit the case, as you know much the best about it Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington D. C. Respectfully Yours Most Ob st Servt Abad Joy

Office House of Reps U.S. April 18 1845
Sir
Your letter of the 15 th instant has been received.
The petition of Gilbert Goodrich was presented to the House of Representatives, on the 23 d of January 1832 by Hon M c Doudleday and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions which Committee never reported upon it. And the papers in this case do not now appear upon the files of this office.
I am very respectfully
Sir
Your O bt Serv t
J. P. M c Ch
Clerk House of Reps U.S.
Dear Sir
David Seneca County New York

33
May 5. 1845.
Adaltes case Israel Frederick.
Hon J S Edwards Com d of Pensions Washington D.C.

Ovid May 2 nd 1845
Dear Sir
I enclose further proof, or rather proof of the fact of the record of the marriage of Sarah Goodrich, which I trust will clear her case - on the 25 th April I mailed to you Hon B. B. French's letter, relating to this case
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm r of Pensions Washington D. C.
Respectfully Yours Most Ob st Serv t Abad Joy

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Nov. 15 1811.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Gilbert Goodrich is borne upon a pay roll of Capt. John Dodge, Col. Brown's Regt. from July 21 1780 to Nov 6 days; upon a return of the Selectmen of the town of Leominster, dated March 1. 1782. and received a bounty of 60 £. to serve three years, in the Company of Capt. Eben Smith, 6 th Regt. dated March 11. 1782.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sawyer, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application for Certificate of Revolutionary Services by the Widow
Sarah Goodrich
State of New York
County of Cayuga
Town of Springport
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the services of my late husband
Gilbert Goodrich
He enlisted in the year 1781
from the town of Lenox
in the County of Berkshire
State of Massach-
in the Company of Capt
Dowth
Regiment, and served as
sergeant
We were married in the year 1789
He died in the year
1832
The only other facts which I recollect are as follows
That her said husband served one year as waiter to Genl. Putnam, that he then enlisted for three years and served the whole of that time that the company made the other officers and served until June 10 th 1783 when he got his discharge
Dear Sir
I have secured a copy of his discharge it bears date the 10 th of June 1783 it appears he belongs to the Fourth Regiment Mass John Drenniff Secretary and Charles Seddon Adjt I have two Affidavits stating the said Goodrich Enlisted in the Month of January 1781 for three years his one year as waiter under Patterson & in the dark
I am now 80 years old and my memory does not enable me to state any thing further material to the search required I have empowered David Day of Onondaga County to act in the premises as my Attorney
Witness my hand this 9 th day of March A.D. 1842 Signed in my presence by said Sarah Goodrich Harley Huggins
Sarah Goodrich mark
Harley Huggins - Justice of the Peace.

FREE
Nov 7.
Henry
Gen J L Edwards Secy of pensions Washington
JL

Auburn Nov 2 d 1889
Sir
Permit me again to call your attention to the claim of Mrs Sarah Goodrich which is now before you for a pension
It has been before you about fourteen months and no intelligence has yet been received from it
I fear it has got miss laid or was lost on its way to Washington
Will you favor me with an answer on the subject
Yours Very Resp y
A Gould
Hon J L Edwards

Head Quarters
Poughkeepsie June 10 th 1833
By Command of Commander in Chief States G.C.
Excellency George Washington of the Armies of the United
Whereas Gilbert Goodrich Soldier in the fourth Regiment of Massachusetts having been Examined by a board of Officers appointed to Examine the Invalids of the Armies of the United States, is found unfit for any further duty either in the field or Garrison by Reason of Lameness is hereby Discharged from the same
G. Washington
J. T. Trumbull Secy
Registered in the Books of the Regt
Charles Seldon Adjt
True copy of the Original State of New York ss: Gilbert Goodrich being duly sworn, saith that the above is a true copy of the dis- charge he received from Genl Washington as an Invalid of the Army of the United States and that he took the original Discharge to Congress by Col. John Harris a Representative in Congress and that the said John Harris in- formed him that he deposited the said Discharge with the Clerk of the house of Representatives Seven this 29 th day of December 1810 before me
J. Badger Compt
Gilbert Goodrich

I certify that the within named James Badger & Gilbert Goodrich are both dead & that said Gilbert was a man of truth & veracity - October 8 th 1858.
J. L. Richardson First Judge of Probate
Copy of Discharge